Sentences with phrase «to build one's argument»

I don't mean to build arguments on hypothetical situations or guilt you into sympathy.

All of this helps to improve efficiency when building the argument in a new case.

You need to learn how to choose persuasive information and how to build arguments around facts.

There is no denial that that the team has got worse since he's left, the stats say it all, and the stadium building argument just doesn't hold water now.

Three paragraphs of the main body serve the only aim of building the argument.

But it's not often that lawyers get to build an argument on shades of grey — literally, I mean.

So, I had built an argument in my mind to help me through this.

However difficult it may be, though, it's probably best not to look with too tight a view at particular events, most recently the turmoil in Egypt, in building arguments for specific policies.

You refute odds and say we don't have a clue through science the probability of life and further more the reason / occurrence of why we have life but your trying to build a argument against the idea of an intelligent designer through science.

Gladwell builds his argument upon the work of Oxford professor Herbert Marsh, who dubbed the phenomenon the Big - fish - little - pond effect.

It's like building all your arguments based on old blog posts you really liked, «Well HeavenSent posted that it was sunny outside, so regardless of the evidence, that of darkness beyond my windows, I believe it's sunny outside, and you should too.»

Always a bit dodgy to build an argument off the exceptional rather than norm.

Wherein the first installment uses frat - boy king Teddy (Efron, shirtless again) to get viewers to relate to the social - life - or - future - building argument youngsters in higher education face, the sequel explores a biased system handicapping the youth and equality of college - age ladies.

But after building their argument on unobserved information, they then dismiss information that is before their very eyes.

Creates learning activities that require the use of evidence when building arguments, making claims or explaining thinking

For example, one seventh - grade teacher in her school uses the foundations of ThinkCERCA, a popular online reading program, to teach her students about building arguments.

However, when you consider the credit - score building argument above, the sooner one signs up and begins working on improving their score, the sooner they will be able to double or even triple their average savings.

Once you understand what the market is paying, you need to build an argument for why you offer create more value for the business than they expect in an entry - level hire, said behavioral scientist Matt Wallaert, co-founder of fair - pay site GetRaised.

Pose a provocative question to build an argument around and help your students break it down.

Given that these standards place greater emphasis on students» abilities to build arguments from evidence in texts, these instructional principles will give them the tools to engage in academically enriching conversations that can be fulfilling and highly rewarding.

But at the rate Levy is going, every little bit counts, and flipping an outspoken chair like DeProspo would help fuel the momentum - building argument that Levy's campaign has been trying to make.

The defense attorney for a Buffalo Police Officer and former Common Council member is building an argument in a coming felony fraud case.

One reason Dawkins has become perhaps the best - known popularizer of science in the English language is his precision — his precise understanding of biology (especially evolution), the precise way in which he translates that knowledge into the public idiom, and the precise manner in which he builds an argument, organizes an essay, or demolishes the wobbly logic of a rival in debate.

The skills embedded in math instruction will be the 21st - century skills: They teach habits of mind, so you can use logic to build arguments.»

There is also an activity around building arguments, we didn't get to this in 45 minute lessons but it is there as an option.

The ideas are just sketched out, giving them a framework of ideas on which to build their argument.

Students focused on the conversation, built arguments, and learnt to deal with problem situations in an assertive way.

At the 2017 Performance Matters» National Learners Conference, we are excited to offer a pre-conference option to support districts in using our solutions to evaluate the item - level statistics to ensure that the items support the intended purpose of the test, which begins to build the argument for valid inferences.

«I love the [Advanced Placement] English language tests, well at least the written part, students have to synthesize and analyze texts and build arguments.

It is the main idea, around which you will build your argument.

Rather than try to build this argument myself, I'll turn things over to Larry Swedroe, who has made it eloquently many times on his blog — backed up with empirical data, as always:

You'd be picking entirely the wrong thing to build you argument on, which is exactly what's happening with Star Fox Zero; you think you're pointing out why it's better now, but your don't understand how, overall, it's actually worse.

Hi there, I normally don't try to nit - pick writers about details, but the essay that the author uses here to build his argument — «On Matisse: The Blinding: For Leo Steinberg,» is NOT by Hal Foster!

One lesson, discussed by me for many years, is that short - term variability even on the scale of a decade (in either the hot or not hot direction) is a distraction if one is looking for evidence of human - driven warming or trying to build an argument for or against curbing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Of course, another approach is to build the argument for new non-polluting energy norms around the many benefits — along with climate insurance — that could come from finding abundant, renewable sources.

[ANDY REVKIN notes: No one is building the argument for human - caused warming on Alaskan climate shifts.

Building an argument against climate action upon a forceful claim about the most likely outcome of greenhouse gas emissions is to build an argument upon analytic sand.

I guess I'd add that this is understandable, given that the denier camp really doesn't have much actual science to use as ammunition or to build their arguments on, and thus they tend to wage their campaign by cherrypicking data, or seeking to attack narrow and often out - of - context passages found in scientific papers or in simplified postings about those papers found on sites like Skeptical Science.

In other words, there really is very little precedent to build arguments on.